16 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



Typically it measures twenty-two lignes in height by two inches in diameter. 



The skin takes on a red color where it faces the sun & usually has streaks that are 

 darker red. The other side remains light green. It comes off easily. 



The juice is slightly musky & very pleasant. 



The pit is very much enlarged at the pointed end. It's an inch long, eleven lignes 

 wide, and nine lignes thick. 



It ripens a little after the red Madeleine. 



XII. PEACH TREE with round summer fruit, dark red with very sweet juicy flesh. 

 True early PURPLE PEACH with large flowers. (PL VIII.) 



This is a vigorous & fruitful tree. 



The shoots are strong, of average length, and are tinged with red on the sunlit 

 side. 



The leaves terminate in a very sharp point. Their denticulation is even, very fine 

 & not very deep. 



The large flowers are a very bright red and are fully open. 



The fruit is big and is divided into two hemispheres by a broad & quite deep 

 groove. At the top of the fruit the groove ends in an indentation, sometimes a large one, 

 where the location of the pistil is barely visible. At its other end there's a wide & deep 

 cavity where the stalk inserts. The fruit has an attractive shape when it's twenty-five 

 lignes in diameter & twenty-three lignes high. Often it's more than twenty-seven lignes in 

 diameter & twenty-four lignes high. Sometimes the pit opens up and causes the fruit to 

 swell. In that case its diameter is too large in proportion to its height, & consequently it 

 has a less appealing shape. 



